Covid-19

President Donald Trump complained about his hectic schedule while vacationing at Camp David on Saturday.

The leader of the free world revealed how he has been spending his time as 65,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 and 30 million have filed for unemployment.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) are rejecting offers of COVID-19 tests that would allow Congress to get back to work.

The chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was blasted by a member of his own party on Saturday.

On Saturday, writing for The Atlantic, staff writer David Graham excoriated President Donald Trump for treating a 60,000 death toll for the coronavirus pandemic as something to celebrate.

Despite the fact that the U.S. is the number one world hotspot for coronavirus, with nearly 1.13 million confirmed cases and over 65,605 deaths (nearly triple that of any other nation), the Trump administration has pulled the U.S. out of a World Health Organization (WHO) global initiative "to speed the development, production and distribution of drugs and vaccines against COVID-19," a spokesman for the U.S. mission in Geneva told Reuters.

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the small business loan program established by the coronavirus stimulus package, has been plagued with problems including a lack of funding and unclear guidelines that allowed big corporations and even well-endowed private schools to apply for aid.

On Saturday, writing for The Atlantic, Peter Nicholas and Kathy Gilsinan argued that by trying to pass off the responsibility for fighting the coronavirus pandemic onto state governors, President Donald Trump did something very big that he hadn't meant to do — return federal power to the states.

According to a report from CNN, Robert O'Brien, Donald Trump's fourth national security adviser has been sidelined by the White House during the coronavirus pandemic and some administration officials are saying the intel head is simply in over his head and has taken to handing off some of his duties to aides.

Amongst the hundreds of Friday afternoon protestors opposing the extension of Illinois Governor JB Pritzker’s stay-at-home order were two with anti-Semitic ones: one sign read, "Heil, Pritzker" with a large swastika next to it, and another read, “Arbeit Macht Frei,” the German phrase for "Work Makes You Free," which appeared over the entrance to Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps.

MINNEAPOLIS — The growing COVID-19 pandemic could last up to two years, with a potential second wave in the fall, according to nationally renowned University of Minnesota epidemiologist Michael Osterholm and a team of researchers.The exact path the disease will take is unclear, but with no vaccine and a global population that had no immunity to the new coronavirus, COVID-19 could follow patterns seen in previous pandemics.That means that governments will need to continually adjust their pandemic responses to waves of infections, which could have several peaks, rather than a distinct period of ...

On Saturday, writing for the conservative website The Bulwark, attorney Philip Rotner broke down the flawed argument by Attorney General William Barr that he has a constitutional basis for challenging state and local stay-at-home orders.

On MSNBC Saturday, Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe laid into Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for caring more about filling judicial vacancies than advancing new legislation to fight the coronavirus pandemic.